New Delhi (ILNS): The Uttarakhand High Court has ordered that all documents of all primary and upper primary school teachers in the state have to be verified within three weeks. The court has been hearing a petition which had alleged that about 3,500 teachers in the state have got jobs with fake documents.
In the previous hearing the court had asked the government to submit affidavits after examining the documents of all teachers at the district, block and tehsil levels. The government had answered that it would take one and-a-half years to get all the teachers’ documents examined. The court was not willing to accept this date and allowed only three weeks. The next hearing has been fixed for November 2.
The case was heard before a division bench of Acting Chief Justice Ravi Vijaykumar Malimath and Justice Ramesh Chandra Khulbe.
The petition alleging the scam had been filed by the Students’ Welfare Society, Haldwani. In the SIT probe of some of these teachers, such as Khachedu Singh, Rishipal, Jaipal were revealed. With the connivance of departmental officers, they were given clean chits. They are still working.
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Earlier, the state government had submitted an affidavit and had said that a SIT probe is going on in this case. So far names of 84 teachers have been revealed. All have found appointment on the basis of fake documents. Departmental proceedings are underway against them.
-ILNS